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Monthly Archives: August 2009
World Bank Report on China’s Circular Economy
For those of you eco-warriors out there who just cannot get enough of big NGO research, here is another one for you, The World Bank’s Policy Note China: Promoting A Circular Economy (right click here). At only 33 pages, this … Continue reading
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Come out to Support Green Ride on September 11
Roots creep underground everywhere and make a firm foundation. Shoots seem very weak, but to reach the light, they can break open brick walls. Imagine that the brick walls are all the problems we have inflicted on our planet. Hundreds … Continue reading
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Shanghai Greentech Event: A Call To Action
For those of you who are going to be in Shanghai September 7 and 8, I suggest you consider attending Greentech: A Call to Action, hosted by AMCHAM and Asia Society. It is packed, and I mean PACKED, with over … Continue reading
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China Bans Export of Rare Metals.
Two days back, the Gas 2.0 article Hoarding The Rare Earth Wealth: China May Limit Export Of Rare Elements came across my RSS. The title was one that had me immediately looking for a trade dispute in the making, but … Continue reading
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UNEP Expo Report: The Expo
Section 8 deals with the Expo itself and is broken down into a few sub chapters that deal with the site preparation, building construction, energy efficiency, and the eventual removal of pavilions. It is THE CHAPTER of importance, and if … Continue reading
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Tony Blair and Jet Li Take 1000 Chinese Villages off the Grid
A short clip highlighting some of the work that Tony Blair and Jet LI are doing together through their groups, The Climate Group and One Foundation, to promote responsible energy consumption within 1000 villages. in China, AFrica, and India: The … Continue reading
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China’s Pressing Pollution Problem. According to Reuters
To try and boil down the “most pressing pollution problems”in China into anything bit sized is a feat on many levels, a feat Reuters felt up to the task on in their article Q+A-China’s pressing pollution problem The article itself … Continue reading
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UNEP Shanghai Expo Report Analysis: Part 1
Part 1: Air Quality Perhaps it is because air quality is so visible, and the differences in China are so wide, environmental reports tend to start here. Devoting nearly 20 pages to the topic, I must give the authors credit … Continue reading
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Financing Efficiency in China
When speaking of barriers to sustainability the role of finance is often understated, but in their recent paper Financing Energy Efficiency in China, William Chandler and Holly Gwin of Carnegie Endowment do an excellent job of showing that in many … Continue reading
Mixed Messages About Water Waste
When a firm in China ends up on a list, it rarely is a good thing, a fact that Coke and Pepsi learned last week when put on Beijing’s top 12 water waster list. see AFP article: Coca-Cola, Pepsi on … Continue reading
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